[Typo3] how do extensions authors catch up with core updates?

Bing Du du_bing at hotmail.com
Thu May 5 16:32:46 CEST 2005


Thanks folks for your information that has given me peace of mind.

Bing

Bernhard Kraft wrote:

> Bing Du wrote:
> 
>> Coming from Mambo (another very popular CMS) and working on Typo3 now 
>> with a couple of questions:
>>
>> 1. How often does Typo3 core upgrade?
>> 2. When Typo3 core upgrades, how fast can extensions authors catch up?
>>
>> I'm asking that because in our experience with Mambo, whenever its 
>> core upgraded, if the authors of Mambo's 3rd party components/modules 
>> do not caught up, our site just got stuck.
> 
> 
> Typo3 core gets updated every 6-12 months. At least the last ones.
> 
> Normally the T3 core stays downward compatible. That means that at least 
> for some
> version numbers every feature will be availbale. This gives the 
> extension authors
> some time to change theier coding to newer concepts.
> 
> When a feature comes outdated like the old "language split" fields then 
> they will be
> removed some time (which becoes true for the language split feature in 
> some time).
> 
> 
> greets,
> Bernhard



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